eLearning: Kann man davon leben ?

Die Frage kennt jeder: “I just finished a PhD in elearning, and I’m looking for my next steps. Thankfully I have many options but I realize that elearning looks more like a non-profit, charity sector than a normal, economically-viable activity. So I’d like to ask you a question: Where do you see the money being made in elearning today …?”

Die Antwort kommt von Stephen Downes, australisches eLearning Urgestein und einer der profundesten Kenner der Szene: Prädikat Lesenswert! Ebenso wie sein täglicher Newsletter.

Listen, Sync, Create: ODEO geht online

Odeo, ein neuer Podcastservice mit eigenem Client und Directory, sorgt seit längerem für Gesprächstoff. Heute ging Odeo on air and on the web, denn: “Fortune magazine has named Odeo one of it’s 25 Breakout Companies of 2005″. Ein erster Eindruck:

Kinderleicht zu abonnieren, funktionaler Client und ein interessantes Directory. Gute Indy-News gibt es auf “Fire on the Prairie”, beispielsweise John Nichols on Dick Cheney, Rashid Khalidi and the Legacy of Argentina’s Dirty War, mit zahlreichen Interviews und fundierten strategischen Überlegungen diverser think tanks, oder das This Week in Science Interview with William Gibson
(beide unter “New Shows” zu finden).

Wie bei den Suchmaschinen (Google, Yahoo etc.) hat jedes der grossen Podcast Directories seine eigenen Schwerpunkte und Linkempfehlungen. Dazu kommt das explosive Wachstum der Branche - täglich kommen neue Podcasts dazu. Fazit: Ein Ohr für ODEO lohnt sich!

1. Europäischer Storytelling Kongress, 10. – 11. November

„Mit der Kraft des Narrativen zum Unternehmenserfolg“ – zu diesem spannenden Thema präsentiert die Symbiosis Organisationsberatung vom 10. – 11. November in Salzburg Storytelling Pionier Steve Denning (Director Wissensmanagement Weltbank) aus den USA sowie die namhaftesten Experten der deutschsprachigen StoryTelling Szene. Geboten wird ein vielfältiges Programm: mit Vorträgen, Workshops und Praxis-Cafés soll ein Überblick über mögliche Anwendungsfelder bis hin zum konkreten Praxis-Nutzen dargestellt und erlebnisorientiert vermittelt werden. Weitere Highlights dieser außergewöhnlichen Veranstaltung sind eine Podiumsdiskussion sowie ein exklusives Story-Dinner im Schloss Klessheim.

Die Kommunikationsarchitekten – Hannes Maier und F. Christoph Harringer – konzipieren ein Event, bei dem Theorie und Praxis vernetzt, Erfahrungswissen geteilt und neue Möglichkeiten angedacht werden.

Infos: Tel.: 0662/890013; office@symbiosis.co.at, www.symbiosis.co.at

Neuer Journalismus?

We are the Media! so das Bekennerschreiben zahlreicher Blogger und Podcaster. Manchmal gelingt es, diesen Anspruch einzulösen, wie hier auf Wikipedia: Das setzt Masstäbe!

You will Fail

Mayor’s Statement
7 July 2005

This was a cowardly attack, which has resulted in injury and loss of life. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been injured, or lost loved ones. I want to thank the emergency services for the way they have responded.

Following the al-Qaeda attacks on September 11th in America we conducted a series of exercises in London in order to be prepared for just such an attack. One of the exercises undertaken by the government, my office and the emergency and security services was based on the possibility of multiple explosions on the transport system during the Friday rush hour. The plan that came out of that exercise is being executed today, with remarkable efficiency and courage, and I praise those staff who are involved.

I’d like to thank Londoners for the calm way in which they have responded to this cowardly attack and echo the advice of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair - do everything possible to assist the police and take the advice of the police about getting home today.

I have no doubt whatsoever that this is a terrorist attack. We did hope in the first few minutes after hearing about the events on the Underground that it might simply be a maintenance tragedy. That was not the case. I have been able to stay in touch through the very excellent communications that were established for the eventuality that I might be out of the city at the time of a terrorist attack and they have worked with remarkable effectiveness. I will be in continual contact until I am back in London.

I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.

That isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith - it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder and we know what the objective is. They seek to divide Londoners. They seek to turn Londoners against each other. I said yesterday to the International Olympic Committee, that the city of London is the greatest in the world, because everybody lives side by side in harmony. Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack. They will stand together in solidarity alongside those who have been injured and those who have been bereaved and that is why I’m proud to be the mayor of that city.

Finally, I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life.

I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others - that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail.

In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.

They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don’t want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.

Feine Sache, das! Podcasts via Handy hören

Die Anwendungen sind vielfältig, der Preis ist heiss: 10 Dollar für die Software, um mit Windows-basierten Handies und Smartphones Podcasts zu empfangen. Stellen Sie sich mal die Möglichkeiten für Training, Aus- und Weiterbildung vor: Training on the Job, News direkt vor dem Kundenkontakt, psychologische Unterstützung usw. Oder die medizinisch-psychologischen Möglichkeiten … man weiss ja kaum, womit man anfangen soll!

Text Mobs - das Tool für smartmobs

Man weiss nie …:”TXTmob lets you quickly and easily share txt messages with friends, comrades, and total strangers. The format is similar to an email b-board system. You can sign up to send and receive messages from various groups, which are organized around a range of different topics.

TXTmob was first developed by the Institute for Applied Autonomy for protestors at the Democratic National Convention in Boston and the Republican National Convention in New York. Tad Hirsch, a researcher in MIT’s Computing Culture Group continues to offer TXTmob as a free service to the general public, and is currently coordinating a major software upgrade. If you wish to help with development or are interested in adapting our technology for your organization or event, please email us at “info at txtmob dot com”

Researchers Predict Rapid Growth for Podcasting

Demand for time-shifted digital audio files or podcasts is expected to grow from less than 15% of portable digital music player owners in 2004 to 75% by 2010, according to new forecasts from The Diffusion Group, a consumer technology research and marketing firm. TDG’s new report, Podcasting: Fact, Fiction and Opportunity, suggests that between 2004 and 2010, the use of podcasting among US consumers will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 101%.

The Inglehart Values Map

The Inglehart Values Map visualizes the strong correlation of values in different cultures. Countries are clustered in a remarkably predictable way.

Suchmaschine für Podcasts

Immer wieder erstaunlich, mit welchen Riesenschritten Podcasting auf dem Weg zu einem Massenmedium ist. Jüngstes Beispiel der Erfolgsserie: Die Podcast-Suchmaschine.